ralphthemoviemaker watches Nostalgia Critic's Review of Pink Floyd's The Wall

[@SatumitheNeet]

Ralph watched it so you don’t have too

[@TheFelixxilef0]

Nice

[@janesmith1840]

I refuse to recommend the video, but I do recommend going through the comments. There's some fucking gold in there.

[@robot8675]

Please don't watch it guys it's not worth it you won't be the same.

[@KingThrillgore]

That poor soul

[@designate_om]

when i was in high school i did an entire rewrite of the wall from the perspective of a guy taking a shit at a pink floyd concert and singing along to the muffled sounds of the band playing through the walls of the bathroom, just to pass the time, cursing himself for missing a once-in-a-lifetime concert experience. i called it the stall. now that the nostalgia critic's thing exists, i can rest easy knowing that someone else had an even worse idea for a cover of the wall.

[@genuineculter5640]

Hey, at least yours sounds oddly creative.

[@Doomshroom8]

Even if that's not true, I'm still certain it would be better.

[@digitaldiablo1653]

I actually want to listen to your version.

[@unblorbosyourshows9635]

This sounds like an awesome plot for a walking simulator.

[@clairebrown4084]

release this please

[@MYNAMACHEF]

_"This album is like a love letter to pink floyd and the wall"_
Yeah, if that letter was filled with anthrax

[@connorjackson5718]

MY NAMA CHEF It’s more like an insult to Pink Floyd and The Wall. Roger Waters would hate this video if he watched it

[@NotACutie]

I've seen kinder love letters sent from Ted Kaczynski
to the govt than this schlock.

[@jonathankent1517]

It's less a love letter and more of a "Dear John" letter.

[@whiskeyhicks]

This comment is the gold I was looking for.

[@paulrippcord506]

What did Scott Ian ever do to you?

[@TreJowy]

To think: Doug Walker once criticized Tommy Wiseau.
...then he went on to make this.

[@torstenscholz6243]

Haha, what a story, TreJowy.

[@kavajarrace]

Dougs got nothing on Tommy

[@doomfrom9077]

Tommy is an artist. He may not be a *good* artist, but he tries. Doug is in it for the views and cash.

[@juankenon]

@@doomfrom9077 Nah dude, he legit thinks himself as a genius filmmaker, the overly long specials, the failed shows, this bullshit....he's just trapped doing a character he despises and doesn't even have the rights to because its the horse he bet on.

[@doomfrom9077]

@@juankenon I do sort of feel bad for him. I mean, we all would hate playing the same character for decades. But at the same time, he doesn't want to take criticism but tries to dish it out to people like Tommy. You may be right that he believes that he is an artist, but I think he knows he isn't.

[@Brainwave101]

As someone who stopped watching Doug years ago, this feels like I'm dropping in on a brother who disconnected himself from the family years ago via crippling drug addiction, and it's only gotten worse.

[@ANoteToSelf]

Me too!!! Ughh the cringe is realllll hahaha

[@davidark9054]

Perfect analogy. :(

[@rachel_sj]

Couldn’t have said it better myself and I don’t regret unsubscribing awhile back. Also, you should watch Lindsay Ellis’s (formerly the Nostalgia Chick) videos. She’s gotten better with her work over time

[@Brainwave101]

@@rachel_sj I'd also recommend Phelous to you if you don't watch him already, he used to review "horror" movies but nowadays it's a gamble between reviewing bootleg toys or something completely random.

[@cw2010]

God same

[@ProDucktions0]

Remember all the times Doug Walker criticized actors/actresses for not being able to sing?

[@cannedgoodness9633]

Both Ralph and Nostalgia Critic also criticise bad acting, yet neither can act.

[@papayer]

Except Ralph is a good actor?

[@ajscrewu]

After this he can’t talk shit about anyone’s movie it’s worse than food fight

[@jongon0848]

Remember that terrible comparison he made between Russell Crowe's singing in Les Miserables and the Rock's singing in Moana?

[@rosesongoku6980]

J.G Productions *AND I’M JAVERT!........ DO NOT FORGET MY NAAAAAAAME!!!!*

[@kolonarulez5222]

The internet was able to come together for a few days to agree that this was just a mistake.

[@Ian-oe9wp]

it is the biggest cringe moment of 2019

[@angelicentity1401]

I am so proud of this community

[@spark154]

@@Ian-oe9wp At least until this year's RUclips Rewind

[@beautyandtheoffbeats]

Interesting these past few days.

[@pronkb000]

In the beginning, The Nostalgia Critic's The Wall was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

[@madmanmacnaughton1515]

I remember the day after my girlfriend broke up with me I got one of the drunkest I've ever been to numb my pain. The next morning I woke I woke up hungover and put The Wall on. Listening to that album while lying in bed feeling like my entire world was ending or just wanting my world to end was one of the most miserable experiences of my life. And I would rather go through that entire experience again than watch Doug's review.

[@josiahagin2100]

Better than Doug’s “singing”.

[@wo3701]

So... you didn't like The Wall? Or you did?

[@therealaintain]

cringe

[@ClankyOtter]

@@wo3701 my honest contextual guess is he very much enjoyed it, but mainly by the means of it igniting a painful fire in him. I resonate a lot with that.

[@neo-filthyfrank1347]

nobody cares you oversensitive loser

[@paulrippcord506]

Nostalgia Critic is something that you outgrow like Smosh. It’s a channel that had 5-6 good years and then became a parody of itself. It used to criticize bad singing and acting, now it’s just bad singing and acting.

[@CrabQueen]

Lets be real, it was always bad singing and acting

[@mariokarter13]

It wasn't good 5-6 years ago, it was good 7-8 years ago. That's around the time To Boldly Flee came out, Doug killed off the character, tried (and failed) to do something new, then brought back the character out of a crippling fear he'd lose everything and fade into obscurity. If he seems creatively frustrated, that's only because he is.

[@moongem4489]

@LadyGaGa is hot I really don't understand what your point is. Is entertainment not open to criticism? Obviously it's all opinion, what else is it supposed to be? That's what criticism is.

[@busound2401]

At least Smosh is trying to change their content lately

[@wisewolftony]

@@mariokarter13 It's funny how someone like AVGN who started around the same time. Hasn't really changed up his content and yet it's still just as popular. Sure like anything it has plenty of people who dislike it. But it's core fanbase has stuck around and still enjoys almost every single Nerd video he has put out. I mean I still enjoy his videos. Its the same thing with Linkara for me. Although I only just got into him a few months ago. But I have basically watched all his videos from the start of his career to the current day. And yes he's changed it up a bit but the core of what his videos are still the same and his fanbase has never gotten tired of it.
While with Doug I honestly didn't start watching his content until about 11 months ago. When I saw one review liked it and decided to start watching more. The thing is it only took me like 3 months until I just got sick and tired of his content and it wasn't because of his new videos and how he's changed them up. Instead I just got sick and tired of the character his voice and his style. Honestly I feel like now Doug core fanbase is very young kids between the ages of 13-17. Who think yelling at a camera is funny that think the bad acting poor writing and bad editing and effects equals great comedy. They don't understand what makes a good joke or what good comedy is. So they just think since he's trying to telling a joke or be comedic that it must mean that it is.

[@polobar9347]

The idea of someone listening to the Nostalgia Critic Wall album unironically is the most hilarious thing

[@nikkothegoblin]

I didn't listen to it, but I found out about the album before the review

[@nikkothegoblin]

That was a moment scarred into my memory for every

[@un-capital3666]

That's like listening to an entire Kidz Bop album, I'd only wish that sort of fate upon my worst and most vile enemies.

[@r68saga31]

Initially it had overwhelmingly positive ratings

[@ontologicallysteve7765]

The Nostalgia Critic watches his own content----so you don't have to. C'mon----you know that Doug has watched his Wall "critique" dozens of times, thinking that it's his magnum opus masterpiece that can *only* be criticized by those who lack the intellectual capability to understand it. *All of this, whilst touching himself* . This is how he justifies the like/dislike ratio (to his narcisstic personality disorder).
You know I'm right.

[@thesloshiestarman4879]

I like how Doug calls one of the songs "oscar bait" even though the album predates the movie

[@haleybeldin9247]

And Hey You wasn't in the movie lmao

[@thecinematicmind]

Haley Beldin only the deleted scenes

[@DaMaster012]

It's worse than that; the song that he erroneously miscategorizes as "Oscar Bait" was straight off the album, almost completely 100% unchanged from the record.

[@fizzpeak123]

@@haleybeldin9247 they removed it because Waters thought that the film had enough montages

[@ritzmat]

Oh shit you're right

[@CrystalJupiter]

Doug completely missing the point of the movie/album is akin to CinemaSins lack of understanding of context.

[@samanderson5774]

From the little I watch of Cinemasins, they are at least intentionally ignoring context to make more sins?

[@lukasr1166]

@@samanderson5774 like that's any better. I'd argue that's even worse

[@uenoyamakamishiro7646]

@@lukasr1166 to be fair, cinemasins always emphasizes that they are not professionals and they are not reliable reviewers whenever people asks them. Don't get me wrong, i like cinemawins more than cinemasins but Cinemasins is at least less pretentious and more honest about it. Doug in the other hand... is basically the living info dump of what not to becone as a reviewer.

[@HOTD108_]

@@uenoyamakamishiro7646 That's not really an excuse. CinemaSins hide behind the idea of "satire" without even knowing what the word means.

[@samanderson5774]

Ok but it doesn't pretend to be a review
Like... from the admittedly minimum I've seen, they just goes around calling random things "sins" with the intent of trying to be comical/commenting on the movie
NC seems to be under the weird worldview that he's enlightening people on the 'real' way to see movies, and it's just kinda gotten weirder and more noticeable lately
Like maybe that's not his intention, but that's what it looks like right?

[@sketchblu5604]

Imagine writing an album, to cope with all the trauma you had to experience throughout your life and Mr. Baldie McGee tells you to get over it

[@user-lg5xu6id5j]

"Bro chill its a love letter haha its a parody haha buy my cover"

[@alistairmcintosh9520]

why does he look like a cancer?

[@TheCh33ks]

He even had the GALL to directly address Roger Waters in one of the tracks.

[@jackreed5863]

sketch blu oh boo hoo private school in the UK sure is tough

[@user-lg5xu6id5j]

@@jackreed5863 how bad was it in the 60s?

[@giovanyzegarra1452]

Can’t wait for James Franco to play Doug in “Disaster reviewer” in some years

[@docvince1491]

Giovany Zegarra And for Seth Rogen to play Linkara.

[@christiangudmundsson8390]

He's gonna be a bit old for the part though.

[@SefniAsheforr]

@@christiangudmundsson8390 Franco looks significantly younger than Doug too lol.

[@compookiie]

Jim Carrey should play the part

[@yoliviu15]

I just laughed out loud literally, best comment i've seen in a while

[@Lccru]

The NC can no longer make fun of Tommy wiseau. This is worse than the room... at least the room is fun to watch.

[@Nathan-kk6lb]

Hell, some would argue that they lost that right after they made the anniversary movies. Quinton Reviews recently made the argument that To Boldly Flee is legitimately worse than the Room and I really can't argue with him. Even when I was like 14 and first started binging NC's backcatalog, I literally couldn't sit through all *four hours* of that movie and just skipped through it to get the basic idea. It's genuinely unwatchable, and recent comments from former CA employees have shown that producing it was actually a worse process than watching it since Doug is a legitimately awful director. It has *zero* redeeming qualities.

[@will.2155]

RUclipsr skits/songs. (outside of the AVGN) are almost never funny and are often cringe-worthy

[@FrenkTheJoy]

The Room at least had a coherent plot. A woman is unhappy in her marriage despite her husband being a good guy with good job prospects, so she cheats on him even though her boyfriend is her husband's best friend. I could not begin to explain the plot of To Boldly Flee even though I sat through all 4 hours of it.
To Boldly Flee is longer than any of the Lord of the Rings movies and makes less sense.

[@Nathan-kk6lb]

@@FrenkTheJoy The problem is that it has at least four plots going on at the same time. Not A-B-C-D plots, mind you, I mean the plot of the whole movie literally just completely changes every five minutes. At one point it's a critique/parody of SOPA, then it's the NC being depressed about something or other, then suddenly it's just Robot Chicken Star Wars, then it becomes a critique/parody of the movie industry. It's like four different Doug Walkers from four different timelines all wrote completely different scripts for a parody movie, met up somewhere, tossed them all into the air, and then everyone collected a full set with all the right page numbers and filmed whatever they ended up with.

[@gab_v250]

@@will.2155 exactly. AVGN aged really well, and surely better than NC. I still find his recent episodes really entertaining to watchm

[@PaigeHankins28]

Doug, after seeing a segment in a movie specifically about the English public school system, can only think to criticize it in comparison to what he knows about American public school [high school, no less].
He didn't even take a second to consider the historic or cultural context the movie took place in. He failed at one of the most basic parts of film analysis.

[@ChiefMedicPururu]

Because he doesn't care.

[@redzeppelin6]

As the English would put it he's too thick to understand.

[@anthraxcrab2222]

Not only is there the division in countries they are born in but also Syd Barrett was born in 46 so he would’ve been starting going to School during the 50s

[@ma.2089]

Forget English versus American school systems even. It’s not like the American one is that good either. He probably went to a good one. He thinks the world is all like the school he grew up in, which is wrong

[@LuisMartinez-rw2lj]

@@ma.2089 I think he is from Illinois so maybe he went to a fancy highland park school

[@sansnom5269]

"The message is not subtle and way too on the nose" - Doug Walker, while missing the point of every single song.

[@arnavbhattacharjee2035]

every single [piece of media, from movies to cartoons to songs to video games to comic books to fandom to infinity to beyond to etc.]
FTFY ;)

[@sansnom5269]

@@arnavbhattacharjee2035 It comes without saying, but in this review he managed to offend even his most loyal fans. Yes, the poor bastards who just bought tickets to see his review of "IT - Part 2" ...on theaters!
You know you fucked up royally when even those people realize you are a fraud.
As I said in many replies, what baffles me the most is not even Doug Walker astonishing lack of self awareness. But, instead how offensive this whole thing was. Not only for Floyd fans, movie fans or just anyone with artistic integrity, but how he managed to also give multiple middle fingers to people who suffered any kind of problems with drugs, anxiety or depression.
In his lame rhymes : "Grow a pair!"
Just wow.

[@StraightPunkEdge93]

Walker is a fucking baby who needs his hand held during movies. Picking up on themes on his own is just too hard.

[@sansnom5269]

@@zogwort1522 themes by definition can not be subjective. You are thinking about allegories, that can be long stretches. Much like Doug, you should do research before talking out of your ass, "bro" .

[@RomanHistoryFan476AD]

@@sansnom5269 Wait what people brought Tickets to a review.

[@alexanderchippel]

Doug Walker saw all the things people hated about his show and made that the entire show.

[@eddiedingle767]

Alexander Chippel hey, everyone loved Demo Reel, right? No? Fuck you! Let’s make Demo Reel, but worse!

[@evenhartwick4422]

Exactly everything he does now is so cringey, the skits, the actors, the special effects the cheap costumes and green screen they look about on par with those creepy Elsa Spider-Man videos that toy channels make on RUclips. and that is like the lowest bar you can reach i am surprised he has millions of subs with this bottom of the barrel content.

[@loreaver3882]

Demo Reel was robbed of an Emmy tho

[@nilktots6380]

The review must go on but Doug hopes to kill the last remaining brain cells of his audience to free himself from N.C.

[@roadkill5727]

Flanderization

[@jacobs22_70]

🎵*hey, critic, leave the wall alone!*🎵

[@pinecone9619]

*All in all you're just a, failed comedian!*

[@trashboye1235]

@nick BOOM

[@leetorry]

*explosions

[@brad_hensil]

🎵We don't need this lame-ass album🎵

[@rosesongoku6980]

*(Cal dancing his heart out while Anthony continues to sing in a "kill me now" voice)*

[@QueenArielViolet]

Ah, yes, "Goodbye, Blue Sky", a quintessential example of an Oscar-bait song, totally not a classic song on the original The Wall album, just some bullshit they threw in to get a Best Original Song nomination. Real insightful criticism, Doug.

[@torotimemaster8983]

How does he think it's an Oscar bait song when the album was released 3 years before the film ?

[@QueenArielViolet]

@@torotimemaster8983 He probably didn't, he just decided to go with the first lyrics that popped in his head because he couldn't be fucked to think of anything better.

[@lukemacinnes5124]

But it rhymed though so it's good criticism

[@larb6314]

Ariel Violet Roger Waters makes a song about the pain left over from WWII and how he didn't grow up with a father because of it, which is expanded upon later in the album since Waters was afraid the forces of fascism his father died fighting would return.
Doug: lol high school isn't that hard why r u talking about WWII???!?

[@redzeppelin6]

Guess Doug never looked up the London air raids WWII

[@dennisp.5528]

Someone actually felt clever for turning 'comfortably numb' to 'comfortably dumb'

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

Shoulda changed it to Sanford and Sons.

[@ColonelCarnage]

All the time, effort and manpower put into writing and filming that video and not one person realized how awful it was?

[@bruce000000070000000]

I hate them so much for that

[@leogeck7350]

plus, it HAD to be superimposed, so that EVERYBODY gets it

[@TehTezMan]

@@ColonelCarnage it only took one of them being oblivious, and his name is Doug walker.

[@TheRealCarlBrutananadilewski]

Has access to Cory Taylor
*sings all the songs himself anyways*

[@TheRoflcer]

This is like when Spongebob did a musical movie with David Bowie in it and didn't have the guy sing any songs.

[@Brainhorn]

that's_the_joke.jpg
They even mention it in the review

[@the_original_Bilb_Ono]

i was shocked to see Rob Scallon in this shit-fest too. a lot of talented people around doug and somehow doug ruins it.

[@un-capital3666]

@@Brainhorn
Self awareness =/= competency

[@souffle-d-eclair]

@@the_original_Bilb_Ono Actually you just answered your own query. Doug's aura of mediocrity ruins everything around him just by proximity.

[@ANoteToSelf]

I see Nostalgia Critic’s production value has remained the same since 2006.

[@Thelionpaladin]

It’s actually worse in a way because the shitty sketches nobody liked now take up more and more of the reviews

[@brench2236]

Thelionpaladin aahahhaahahahah

[@danielt9744]

It literally looks disgusting

[@conorburke1999]

Stretched much more thinly than when the sketches actually supplemented the review part of the video rather than fighting it for screen time

[@Thelionpaladin]

Stonetown3487 I can barely think of a sketch of his that was funny. And as you say it eventually came to the point that a good half of a nostalgia critic video wouldnt be a review, often with no relevance to anything, just these shit terribly acted terribly delivered sketches. No wonder Lindsay Ellis and others jumped ship

[@sangieredwolf]

The fact that he completely missed the mark with the "Person You Hate" caricature is absolutely ignorant as the original that person was sending a gay person, a black person, and a jew to be hung. To turn that into "Twitter is mean to me sometimes" is so fucking devoid of any tact. Absolute trash.

[@SuperLlama42]

"A love letter to Pink Floyd."
Is that what we call shitting on a movie for 40 minutes and then just going "Eh it's okay"?

[@Brainhorn]

I don't know if you know this, but you can enjoy something and still criticize it and poke fun at it

[@SuperLlama42]

@@Brainhorn There's a difference between criticizing something you love and just tearing it apart bit by bit for 40 minutes, all the while continuously demonstrating a complete lack of understanding of the whole thing, and then giving out a half-hearted positive as an afterthought as if you're just trying to cover your ass at the last second.

[@Brainhorn]

@@SuperLlama42 Not really. You're just angry that he didn't shower it with praise.

[@SuperLlama42]

@@Brainhorn I've never even seen The Wall, and I've barely listened to any songs from the album, so take your fanboy theory and shove it up your ass.
I can just recognize that taking something and obsessing over its flaws and nothing but nonstop for 40 minutes isn't how you do a "love letter" to that thing.
It's satire. And you don't satirize things you like.

[@Brainhorn]

@@SuperLlama42 lol who the fuck says so? You? Your whole argument is based around your own misinterpretation of what's allowed in satire? You should have just said you were a fanboy, because this is FAAAR more pathetic

[@mono.isgtds]

It annoyed me when he said the ww2 scenes where pointless, even tho the main characters and Rodger waters dads died in ww2.

[@80swoodpanel]

And his grandpa died in WWI. Great comedy material, isn't it?

[@mono.isgtds]

An Di he treats the songs like they’re not part of a story, another brick in the wall wasn’t about school bad bruh, it was about how the character was affected by the 50s education system.

[@canalsincontenido]

yeah, because, like... war is pointless? yeah, that

[@80swoodpanel]

@@mono.isgtds He doesn't understand this (not-so-complex) album/film, therefore it is PRETENTIOUS. He's a child.

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

Wait, Roger Waters had multiple dads and they ALL died in WWII? I think the games and films and media have really undersold the cataclysmic proportions of a World War in the years since then. "Come and See" maybe did justice to the history, but that was literally made by former WWII partisans. The title is a thesis statement.

[@BrennanAngle]

“Comfortably Numb” got me through a very difficult time in my life, and hearing it sung in Doug Walker’s voice makes me want to lobotomize myself.

[@mooganify]

Calling it 'Dumb' too

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

Word.

[@kaylithorsen7017]

Brennan Angle same

[@patriciofernandez2711]

aaronsdavis You must love The Velvet Underground

[@leeeeeeeeeeeeeviathan]

The entire album spoke to me in a lot of ways when I needed it the most, so it's very near and dear to my heart. Hearing Doug rip it to shreds and shit all over it makes me want to rip him to shreds.

[@theneighborskid3179]

Roger waters: describes the horrid and unbearable conditions of going to school in 1900s London
Doug Walker: WeLl I wEnT tO sChOoL aNd It IsN't ThAt BaD

[@whodatninja439]

Have you seen Doug's high school photo? So funny

[@lemongrabthesecond]

And he's always been like that. He's always acted like bullying etc just doesn't happen because it didn't happen. I remember him criticizing Easy A because he thought the way Emma Stone's character was treated was super unrealistic. It's like how people defended Ellen bc she wasn't mean to them personally. Just because you don't experience something doesn't mean someone else hasn't.

[@batchagaloopytv5816]

Meredith H exactly and just because YOU experienced it doesnt mean it is the "NORM" see how that circle works

[@loreleiflare7388]

ThEy SaY ScHoOl Is BaD bUt lOgAn PaUl fIlMeD a DeAD BodY anD hE sTiLl hAs a CaReEeEEEerrrr

[@WobblesandBean]

@@lemongrabthesecond Doug doesn't live in reality. He thinks his subjective experience = objective reality, for everyone who ever lived, ever. It's utterly gobsmacking.

[@shiestyschmuck5465]

I feel sincere second-hand embarrassment for Rob Scallon. He's a talented musician and doesn't deserve to be attached to this.

[@mooganify]

why did he then lmao

[@forlessthanthecost]

both him and corey taylor

[@JohnGardnerAlhadis]

@@mooganify Because he is/was dating Tamara Chambers, one of the CA crew.
To Rob's credit, he at least took the shitty album down from his Bandcamp, probably out of embarrassment.

[@encycl07pedia-]

@John Gardner He dated the ugly Channel Awesome girl? Not the hottie that left within a year? Christ. He must have low self esteem.

[@gabrielhicks8043]

@@encycl07pedia- bruh

[@blankypooh5177]

Hearing him screen “I’M JESUS” over the sick guitar part in “Hey you” pains me.

[@torstenscholz6243]

It's not only awkward but also pointless. There are no Jesus allegories in the film, so Doug pretending to be Jesus there is just another straw man argument of his.

[@samuelg7673]

@@torstenscholz6243 pretty much, just shows how shitty he is at parody anymore.

[@nikjuttun5677]

​@@torstenscholz6243 His entire The Wall review is full of straw man arguments because he misses literally all the points of each song

[@guaceldono7231]

Pretty funny considering that “Hey You” wasn’t even used in the movie

[@eggplant7008]

After seeing Doug shirtless I think that he is crippled

[@heyitsme4751]

When Nostalgia Critic has actors, a studio, multiple sponsors and an entire crew at his disposal, yet Ralph’s videos he makes in his appartment have infinitely more production value

[@sunbleachedangel]

Because Ralph has that thing called tallent

[@westonhudiburgh5786]

Cuz Ralph actually has knowledge on movies and how to write a compelling video.

[@Problematist]

That's because the Nostalgia Critic doesn't know anything technical about making videos, doesn't know how any technology works (people have to sit with him off-screen for stuff like microphones or skype calls) and on top of that he still thinks he's better than the original.
The crew is the only reason the channel can exist.

[@fabtarnished5141]

Ralph doesn't need production value, he has actual ideas... And a brain.

[@mathieuleader8601]

quality over quantity

[@General2550]

Ralph: "I don't hate anyone..."
Ralph's mind:
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[@TEHGJPTDDDO]

But... I thought Ralph said Charles Stiles was “lovable” and “huggable?”

[@roy12525]

"Hello Charles"
"Charles Stiles Mystery Diners"

[@morganqorishchi8181]

Doug and his brother used to ask about movies, "Wasn't there anyone on set who realized what a bad idea this was?" and I feel like that's a relevant question here. Did no one see how flawed this is?

[@youyo2205]

Yeah you know it’s almost like this was a parody for the review.................................... seriously though the point was to make it a parody and it feels like it’s all this was just him nitpicking

[@Katie-ws7xp]

Even if someone mentioned it. Would Doug listen?

[@huxleyable]

When your ego gets the better of you. Nothing seems like a bad idea

[@popo0129]

Honestly Doug being so into wanting to do these skits and own films is getting in the way of his Nostalgia Critic formula that he had back then. He keeps trying to force this shit on and it comes out so horribly and barely even contributes to the review. I feel like Doug might just have a bunch of yes man's working with him so no one ever brings shit up like this. I think even before in the google doc for Change the Channel, someone mentioned they tried to suggest doing something differently while filming one of his movies and he just laughed at her and made everyone laugh with him from what I remember of it.

[@cousinfethry8928]

@@popo0129 That would explain everything. Like everything. From the reason he can get away with making shit like this to the reason Mike Macuad is still 'producing'. Support smaller bois. Like JAR media, Phelous and ralphy here.

[@NicoNicoSmiles]

He’s been on the internet for a million years, but Doug desperately needs to hire someone to do the lighting in all his shots. Everything he shoots just looks awful.

[@etovakala]

Apparently he and his brother are control freaks so they have their fingers in all aspects of the production

[@Tim1000064]

Yeah they both have massive ego's and think they're super talented at everything. Apparently they fight on set all the time too because they both have to get they're own way.

[@wizgi7201]

It doesnt help he films like exclusivley on a green screen

[@LOC-Ness]

@@wizgi7201 Even Green Screens need good lighting.

[@wethole]

And get some better lenses, and do some color grading.

[@hydra7427]

"You know what keeps me up at night? That I'm going to become THIS."
Don't worry. That means you still have standards, and are as yet in no danger.

[@ontologicallysteve7765]

The Nostalgia Critic watches his own content----so you don't have to. C'mon----you know that Doug has watched his Wall "critique" dozens of times, thinking that it's his magnum opus masterpiece that can *only* be criticized by those who lack the intellectual capability to understand it. *All of this, whilst touching himself* . This is how he justifies the like/dislike ratio (to his narcisstic personality disorder).
You know I'm right.

[@mooganify]

good timing

[@atomicdancer]

I hope Ralph will one day make a parody album called "Sergeant Sepe's Lonely Heart's Club Band" and he'll film that all-important shirtless music video to accompany it.

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

He'll start a classic rock cover band named Relph Sepellin and shoe-horn them into all of his videos, which will simultaneously become more frequent and shorter and feature long advertisement interludes mentioning that he has to pay alimony, transitioning into a cover of "Heartbreaker" - and everyone knows you can't top Dread Zeppelin's comedy cover of the song so it will be even more depressing. Don't become Relph Sepellin, Ralphus.

[@spenser9908]

Did you see his Joker review? He's not far off.

[@Questionable_Content]

Reminder that this man who called The Wall "too long" made a four hour movie

[@johnvinals7423]

That was a collection of parody skits.

[@mikeyyates5377]

"Movie" .....

[@NotRay1995]

@@johnvinals7423 I think the term “anti-movie” fits better

[@ironmaster6496]

@@mikeyyates5377 🤣🤣🤣

[@mechanwhal6590]

@@mikeyyates5377 In the barest sense of the word.

[@jesslong8577]

Doug really hates art films so anything even remotely artsy or different immediately gets a bad review it's really cringe and closed minded lmao

[@tonizamboni7362]

have you seen doug's "art"? it's fucking awful, about as pleasing to the eye as the special effects for his zero effort videos, i'm not surprised at all that he has no idea how to critique other ppls' art

[@chrisprusinowski5287]

So are you apparently.

[@domingosjunior6805]

most of them sucks

[@thelarryproject9690]

Jess Lo his review of Donnie Darko was a joke I was mad cuz I love that movie ugh

[@domingosjunior6805]

@@thelarryproject9690 i hate that movie,soo it made me smile
fuck that edgy pretentious fantasy

[@alexandersavage305]

I don’t get Nostalgia Critic anymore. In the earlier days there was some charm to the lack of production value but now they have some resources, sponsors, etc. and everything they put out still looks like garbage.

[@yotam6x7]

The music wasn't that great either. Rob Scallon can do so much better than this

[@Nitrobotti]

Untalented people. It's as simple as that.

[@forgedby2112]

Roger and David's lawyers are going to have a field day with Channel Awesome

[@blakchristianbale]

Alexander Savage their production value increased but their taste didn't, so they have no idea what to put their money towards and their videos come out hideous

[@retrovisor]

You grew up. It's simple

[@shenzhong2942]

he tried to do the whole “so bad it’s good” thing but it ended up being “so bad it’s bad”

[@frankwest5388]

shenzhong the thing with “so bad that it’s good” is that you can’t really do that if no clear passion/believe in what you do is being felt. Take “the room” the movie is terrible but you can clearly feel that at least 1 person was taking it seriously. So it became funny to laugh at.
It’s the “yes it’s shit, but it knows it’s shit” problem. Sure it knows it shit. But that doesn’t make it not shit.

[@octaviolee8282]

@@frankwest5388 I feel like most "so bad that it's good" movies were made to be serious, but failed in ways you can't understand how they manage to make such horrible mistakes.
I feel like the best example is birdemic 1 vs birdemic 2. While the first one was made with the intentions of being serious, the second one wasn't made to be taken seriously and was over the top.

[@walrusArmageddon]

The fundimental rule of so-bad-it's-good is that one cannot intentionally make a so-bad-it's-good movie.
It cannot be self aware whatsover, It has to be made with true naivety of its problems and just roll with it unquestionably, like how people in the Room have tuxidos for no apparent reason, and they just play football in it.

[@RenegadeVile]

Yeah, you can't fabricate 'so bad it's good'. You have to genuinely set out to make something good, but fail spectacularly.

[@apothecurio]

shenzhong yeah that’s cause music that is “so bad it’s good” is called post punk.

[@squeegeemcgee]

"Comfortably Dumb"
nice one, Doug. sick burn.

[@murciadoxial8056]

It honestly feels that he is talking about himself in that one... So... Yeah, it is a sick burn, to himself.

[@Katyamuffin]

It's a self-own if anything lmao

[@therealCrazyJake]

I feel like that could have worked as a legit parody idea if it hadn’t just been blatantly mocking the original material. Like, I could see someone doing a decent parody like that with genuine satire about people who are just downright willfully ignorant, but instead we just got Doug pretentiously mocking a movie/album that he clearly doesn’t understand the context to, having the gall to claim that it’s somehow a “love letter!” He once did an editorial that begged the question if good parody was dead, yet he seems to have not taken his own advice... pity... 😐

[@Radi0he4d1]

Wasn’t that a name of a book by a political operative from a while back?

[@mikeyyates5377]

It's like something a child would write in middle school.

[@Theevil6ify]

Remember when NC was just a (reasonably) funny guy who just sat in front of a blank wall and made a few jokes while actually _reviewing_ the movie?

[@user-lg5xu6id5j]

Nows hes not funny or reviewing the movie

[@Theevil6ify]

@@user-lg5xu6id5j And it's stupid; he could save so much time and money by cutting out the shitty sketches and just go back to the simpler format that made him big to begin with.

[@sicksabre]

You remembered so we don't have to

[@chrisscott2009]

@@Theevil6ify but Doug thinks he's a comic genius and wants to write these comedy skits and *not* do the stuff that people actually enjoyed. It's why i can't stand the guy...if his stuff was just shit and that was it, whatever...but he so clearly thinks he's some great writer and he's not...he's fucking horrendous. Its almost fascinating that someone can be so blind to their own incompetence.

[@JuanSolo9]

The Nostalgia Critic character should've stayed dead.

[@Horrorfreak106]

Some people say that this is going to end his career but if sexual assault allegations, poor treatment of his employees, and everyone leaving channel awesome somehow didn't completely annihilate his career I'm not sure much else will.

[@maxis2778]

What? He sexually assaulted someone

[@InfamousJJ420]

Because he will never acknowledge any of it. And those who don’t know about it will keep watching anyway, because for some reason people like the Nostalgia Critic and his brand of humor.

[@adamtherock2008]

Doug has been stuck doing Nostalgia Critic since Demo Reel bombed. If he hadn’t placed all his eggs in one basket he could’ve maybe survived, but he’s so clueless and arrogant he didn’t foresee that maybe his new stuff wouldn’t pan out. And since his boss Mike Michaud owns the rights to the critic character, he’s stuck in this eternal Hell.

[@GroovyAbzu]

Those are all normal things that go on around the world that we've hated about people for a while, but just become submissive to, but going out of your way to attack a nostalgiac album centered around an incredible bands depression is off limits, this was such a dumb move lol.

[@GroovyAbzu]

@@zogwort1522 I don't mean it in the sense of playing victim level depression, If that's what you're implying, I can't tell through text .... but The Wall is kinda one of those pieces of art that I think fans hold dear bevause it's meant to be a really passionate album not only for connecting with fans, but it's very personal to the band. Like yeah, many artists have personal or passion projects, but this one in my opinion is the least pretentious, so to see nc treat it as such is probably what is really bothering people the most, or at least from what I am seeing.

[@StripedGoose]

Yeah, the review is bad and all, but can we take a minute to talk about how Ralph is straight up not aging at all

[@jeffreyshea3620]

Ntguilty he’s just getting hotter

[@vasile-vladivanovici9430]

I mean, the guy is in his 20s, what do you want him to do? Wrinkles and ostheoporosis?

[@StripedGoose]

@@vasile-vladivanovici9430 Yeah, from all that heroin on thursdays

[@RytahIV]

Ntguilty he lost a good amount of weight, it makes him look that much younger

[@LatinaCreamQueen]

@@jeffreyshea3620 OH NO HE'S HOT.

[@Megared82]

"You know what keeps me up at night? That I'm gonna become this." Ever since Doug's "Wall" video dropped, do you know how many video content creators have said that? Wow, congratulations, Doug, you've become the video review world's answer to the boogeyman, or ghost of things to come if some don't change their ways.

[@cyrus2395]

Someone had to do it, I guess

[@seventeenducks7212]

die a hero, live long enough to be the villain, etc

[@seamusburke639]

This isn't a reaction, it's an autopsy. A cautionary tale.

[@TheLingo56]

Seeing this really does scare me from making shit. He's so fucking confident about these awful choices it comes across like anyone could end up making something this terrible.

[@AoiLucine]

@@TheLingo56 As long as you're willing to listen to critique from people you trust to give you their honest opinions (because they want you to improve, not tear you down), go forth and make shit. I believe in you /o/

[@TheDobleQ]

"HEY GUYS DID YOU LIKE THE MUSIC IN THIS REVIEW?". The audacity.

[@chaosinc.382]

THE AUDACITY!

[@seamusburke639]

@@chaosinc.382 It sounds like he recorded this whole album in Audacity.

[@arpitdas4263]

@@seamusburke639 it wouldn't sound so bad then

[@mikeyyates5377]

I was thinking the same thing ... and Calling it a "Love Letter" Christ tripping in boot camp that was cringe.

[@mistertwister2000]

I think, to this day, Weird Al is the only person who has made parodies that actually age well. He doesn’t just rhyme, he actually made sure all the lines fit the narrative, and the songs he couldn’t really make good parodies out of get put into Polka Medleys.
What Doug did was.... fucking garbage

[@undead923]

He who is tired of Weird Al is tired of life

[@frederickshaibani5655]

Agreed. The Lonely Island and Tenacious D are definitely clever and funny, but they aren't as sophisticated or as timeless as Weird Al.

[@kenetickups6146]

Rucka Rucka Ali’s still just as funny

[@Mantinhas]

Frank Zappa?

[@frederickshaibani5655]

@@Mantinhas ehhh Zappa definitely had satire blended into a ton of his work, but he wasn't really a parody musician in the true sense of the word.

[@mentle6330]

Wait... does Doug actually believe that "Another Brick In The Wall" is LITERALLY about school? Is he really that dense?

[@stproducciones9140]

He's the densest boy of them all

[@cobaltroguex]

He thought Mad Max Fury Road was an allegory for Roadrunner cartoons.
So yes.

[@Lugbzurg]

He vehemently misrepresented to controversy surrounding the Ghostbusters reboot, despite the fact his good old friend James Rolfe was caught up in it, getting targeted and attacked in news articles, and it got so bad that journalists started turning their hatred onto his wife for simply being affiliated with him.. all because James made a video saying that he wasn't gonna review the movie.
He never realized that meninists were an intended satire of the absurdity that radical feminist extremists try to get away with.
He thought the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles started out as a ploy to sell merchandise to children before storytelling, and never realized it actually started out as a relatively-gritty noire-esque action comic book series aimed at teens. (He tried to take this and the other two instances mentioned above, and attempt to use them to put "moral lessons" in the reviews, even though he fundamentally misunderstood them completely.
And of course... everything about the whole "Change the Channel" fiasco.

[@anikmonette2140]

Probably not, but the overall quality of the video is so bad I cannot be sure anymore...

[@andrewcleary9952]

I mean, to a certain degree it was about school, but it was about the psychological impact of being beaten and abused, emotionally and physically, for years. Britain had just won the war, at great personal cost to Roger Waters' family, but that wartime spirit carries on.
"The flames are long gone, but the pain lingers on"

[@vannah_04]

Roger: *gets abused in school, has a terrible relationship with parents, sees the rise of facism, lived through a war-torn era in his country, and made music in order to cope with the truama but still fears that his influence would make him into the monster he vowed to never become.*
Doug: "oh boo hoo you whiney edgelord emo!"

[@dragondude9637]

Don't forget Roger grew up in England during WW2 where nightly air raids meant life or death on a daily basis, and you had a narcissistic psychotic lunatic right across the cannel who wants to take over the world and he's totally obsessed with wiping your small country off the map.

[@muammarbinsharif6425]

@@dragondude9637 england by itself isnt really all that small. When you add in the rest of the UK, British India and Australia, as well as all the other colonies, it is by no means "small".

[@robink8317]

@@muammarbinsharif6425 pretty sure all those countries had separated or where in the process of it at that time.

[@tubbalcain]

@@muammarbinsharif6425 than The Netherlands would be huge country, i guess?, since the 'owned' Indonesia and Suriname around that time.

[@Everik-ct6pg]

When doug said that the parody of the album was “a love letter” I felt my soul die.

[@CoratMcRed]

How does he think its a love letter anyway when he spends practically the entire video and songs mocking the hell out of it and insulting it by calling it "pretentious"?

[@BronyDanProductions]

It feels more like a 'Dear John' letter.

[@DonnaCPunk]

Dear Roger letter.

[@syd1467]

@@CoratMcRed Because Pink Floyd is pretentious. But there's nothing wrong in being pretentious if you achieve and do what you pretend to

[@bigchief8493]

@@syd1467 how is Pink Floyd pretentious?

[@funnydude595]

“I don’t hate anyone.”
*remembers all the videos he’s made*
“Ok maybe I hate a few people”

[@precogunitking]

Charles Stiles, Mystery Diners

[@aadliafiq]

Zack Snooder.?

[@roadkill5727]

I wonder how it feels to be 37 years old and having this be your career; having this be the art attached to your name and identity.

[@CinemaRescored]

As long as he makes money.

[@alphacoffeesins9197]

Well he's a sad joke

[@renatopluspiano9541]

I'm not sure what you do for a living, but you probably don't have lines of people showing up to see you at conventions.

[@renatopluspiano9541]

@Rafi Rahman prob true. At least his slate seems clear of pretty viscious anti-Semitism. Wish I could say the same for the artists he's reviewed lately (rhymes with Dodger Daughters)

[@logannottheonefrommarvel9917]

Just take a look at AVGN while you're at it

[@boxbreaker2011]

I'm literally EMBARRASSED to say I once liked the Nostalgia Critic....he is so insanely cringey and unfunny I have absolutely no idea why ever liked him when there are far better movie critics around.

[@wo3701]

For me, the most frustrating thing about Doug Walker is that when he calms the fuck down and actually reviews something (without completely missing the point (looking at you, Spider-Man trilogy reviews)), he's really not that bad an analyst. But somehow he and his ogre of a brother have deluded themselves into thinking that people wanna watch their shitty skits and listen to their shitty songs.

[@purpseatpeeps8641]

Relatable sister

[@minemaster1337]

same here

[@sunbleachedangel]

We didn't know any better back then yet. Always hated his shit "skits" and "parodies" tho

[@lampini]

Will K well said. They think they can do anything and it’ll be funny

[@TheManCalledDrHorse]

I love the part where Doug gets trapped in purgatory with his fursonas forever

[@terminianhistorian7185]

Pffft lmao

[@arachnerd4493]

wish he stayed there :(

[@BlazeHeartPanther]

Those are not his, those are Fenneh's. DO some research

[@iammonke9203]

@@BlazeHeartPanther Who the fuck is fennah?

[@Aaron-Cinder]

Christian R He’s a youtube animator, the creatures in the end sequence are from his series: Satellite City.

[@somebloke9067]

There’s something unsettling about a group of people in their 30’s/40’s getting overexcited singing the Spongebob theme song

[@alalvarez7301]

Specially one who supposedly has talent, participating in what essentially is a giant dump on Pink Floyd. Between this and the new Slipknot album, Corey's been on the shit pot this year.

[@stproducciones9140]

Brad looks like he wants to die

[@Rockstopmotion]

Think that bad check out grown men in dresses twerking in front of kids in public library in California

[@fantaslurp]

Rock u mean shit that never happens

[@Divergent-ym3py]

Insomniac There’s several videos out there of freaks in drag dancing and almost stripping for children. He’s referring to someone in drag reading stories for the kids but there’s other cases where the putrid “dancing” occurs.

[@TheKinoCorner]

When is James Franco going to make a film about the making of this video?

[@DrZuluGaming]

Only after Jim Scallon wrote "The Disaster Critic".

[@TheBasaltHorogium]

@@DrZuluGaming More like Disaster Movie 2

[@jhonnymark7581]

You mean the making of Garbage Pale Kids

[@youusedtocallmeonmyperfect8973]

We are living in such a beautiful time where 606 people saw and likely understood this deep cut reference to a movie based on a book about the making of The Room

[@nickymo]

It’s wild how terrible doug’s stuff still looks after like 15 years of doing this

[@stproducciones9140]

AVGN was doing the same green screen crap with cheap costumes a decade ago. The only difference is Doug has hd cameras and some more actors other than mike matei.

[@ruyekahatori3073]

@@stproducciones9140 And Doug has people do his editing and a lot of other stuff,even criticized Phelous when he tried to do some of the editing for one of the episodes/movies
AVGN afaik does it all himself

[@bobdeinterlace]

James Rolfe doesn't do much writing or editing these days, his channel was taken over by those weirdos who show up in the Rental Reviews and they do everything for him including most of the work on the AVGN episodes. James just shows up and says the lines. He should've quit doing AVGN episodes years ago if you ask me, you can't make the same diarrhoea joke for fifteen years and expect it to still be funny. But modern AVGN is somehow still better than Doug's videos.

[@Everik-ct6pg]

@@bobdeinterlace James's solo film reviews are honestly great, I love hearing his opinions on movies. It's very ironic how he technically beat Doug in his own game.

[@squidcultist0022]

2008 doug is identical to 2018 doug

[@MusabNaveed]

As someone who hasn't heard the album, seen the film, nor seen the entire review, this is the most confusingly hilarious thing I've seen in a long time.

[@MasterKoopa]

I can only imagine what you went through lmao

[@artheaux666]

Same

[@wo3701]

Maaaan, you're doing yourself a disservice by having THIS be your introduction to it.

[@Z3RO5286]

Pink floyd is aight but nc is fucking garbage and hasn't made good content ever since he brought back nc after the faliure of demo reel.

[@mitzo4526]

I did both, I can tell you, it only makes it even worse

[@HEYitzED]

“Oscar bait song”. He said this about a song that wasn’t even written for a movie. The album came out three years prior.
Also I can’t believe they somehow managed to get Corey Taylor in this video but all they have him do is sing the Spongebob theme. I don’t get it.

[@Sorel2020]

Taylor's son is a fan of NC

[@kyriss12]

Never sign a contract you don't understand.

[@eyegrinder94]

I didn't know it was him until you pointed it out, and I am now afraid of getting into music because I don't want to become that.

[@OdaSwifteye]

@@Sorel2020 That's how the Critic got the Animaniacs into an interview. There children were fans of the show.

[@zombiesauce9886]

hooly shit i honesly respected corey taylor i think hes a great vocalist but what the fuck is he doing in that piece of garbage ,like why

[@suicidalspectre7673]

I want everyone to remember. He thinks this is actually good. Like to Doug this is his magnum opus. He made a long ass review, sang over the original album, and got the guy from Slipknot.
HE THINKS THIS IS GOOD!

[@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747]

Kind of his "No one got Demo Real" narrative to deny it was utter garbage.

[@rosenrot234]

the endings good. Only because Fennah had full control over his animations and no input really from Doug

[@outriderjuno9371]

How'd he rope Corey Taylor into this?

[@rosenrot234]

@default male orc he had a friend of a friend who was friends with Corey

[@thattypicalslimy8548]

@@rosenrot234 his son loves his videos.

[@bighungry98]

“This song is pandering like hell...hey, who cares? All this bitching sells.”
“This was such a love letter to Pink Floyd.”

[@neo-filthyfrank1347]

You must be massively oversensitive to complain about something like that

[@crablordree5191]

@@neo-filthyfrank1347 What? This isn't about sensitivity, it's about Doug saying something that completely contradicts what he said previously. Are you purposely being dense?

[@neo-filthyfrank1347]

@@crablordree5191 It's absolutely about sensitivity. Only extraordinarily oversensitive losers would go "wahh you can't appreciate something while also mocking it".

[@crablordree5191]

@@neo-filthyfrank1347 But none of the criticisms that Doug makes would be from someone who cares about the movie. If you hare able to look at this critically at all it would be obvious that Doug doesn't like the film. Hell, he calls one of the songs "Oscar bait". In what way is that a mockery that a genuin fan would make?

[@neo-filthyfrank1347]

@@crablordree5191 "But none of the criticisms that Doug makes would be from someone who cares about the movie"
Possibly true, but not caring about a film isn't the same as hating it.
" If you hare able to look at this critically at all it would be obvious that Doug doesn't like the film."
You're a moron.
"Hell, he calls one of the songs "Oscar bait". In what way is that a mockery that a genuin fan would make?"
Yes.
All this goes to show is that you're wildly oversensitive and think an insult automatically has to mean that someone hates something. You're literally going:
"DURR wtf dude he literally INSULTED the movie like wtf??? Urgh insults no lieky I'm so triggered rn, obviously shows he hates the film it's impossible to insult something you like, no no no no if you're reviewing something you like you have to just make jokes or appraisial and brainlessly talk about how awesome it is and maybe make references too xD"
Have you never had friends that insult you? Have you literally never made fun of something you yourself enjoy? I like DBZ for example, but I'm aware it's extremely poorly written and objectively not a good show (at all), so I often mock it harshly. Now don't go making idiotic comparisons, obviously The Wall is a very good film, but the point still remains that you can certainly make fun of something you enjoyed, even harshly, and this isn't proof that you actually hate it, and that just goes to show you're too oversensitive.

[@eyeballjay]

"Technology bad!" -Doug Walker, who has made his entire career and living using technology and the internet

[@softestshade7813]

heatherz "Technology Bad, Production Value Bad, Young People Bad, New Stuff Bad!!!"

[@Mockthenerd]

He seriously hates technology for some reason and refuses to use it.

[@Dell-ol6hb]

Mockthenerd 5 no wonder his channel is fucking shit

[@TheBonkleFox]

Wasn't that a joke at the end of Suburban Knights? Like there it was played for laughs because the tech-hating villain has a cellphone, but yet now it's just another example of doug pretty much becoming the joke.

[@gentleman_oni]

@@Mockthenerd well, he's really bad at using it. Didn't it take him like 3-4 years to learn how to do basic editing in premiere?

[@davidwilson6577]

The Wall is told from the perspective of a person who is psychologically distressed and not entirely empathetic.
"After all it's not easy banging your head against some mad bugger's wall" is the last lyric on the album.
His review is 40 minutes of r/woosh

[@DemonicRemption]

@David Wilson
This feels to me like cynicism... And that might not be the right word as the "review" feels like this:"I enjoyed this as a teen, but I so angsty back then, which feels so dumb to me in hindsight as an adult."
And I get that, I tend to have that perspective too, but not like this.

[@thema1998]

"His review is 40 minutes of r/woosh".
That is a great way to describe how Doug completely missed the point of The Wall. 😂

[@winkydinks4770]

"just talk" this is why RLM has so much appeal

[@ianhammock4564]

Yeah. They know what they can and can't do, and stick to what they're best at: movie reviews and watching terrible VHS tapes.

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

Yeah a much better format.

[@officialgoogleyoutube]

@@ianhammock4564 But they make movies, too.

[@wtxcrazydonut]

Yeah, they've almost completely gotten rid of their skits in recent videos as well, whereas Doug seems to have tripled down on them

[@smokyroom5725]

Alex Cregan the difference is that rlm's skits are actually funny lol

[@snorpington5910]

My favorite part of his review was when the critic met Angel Dust from Hazbin Hotel.

[@gallibon1319]

Huh!?

[@mochalavender9398]

They do look like Deviantart OC's...

[@jooree7696]

Nah. Even Angel Dust would have refused to participate to that thing

[@slitbodmod]

I thought I was the only one who thought that thing looked like him

[@brandonporter8509]

What scares me is I know who these characters are now thanks to deadwing. Also “this is a bob friendly chat.”
For those who don’t know what these characters are from it’s a RUclips project/series. It’s a something Called satellite city.
The fact that Doug walkers the wall review introduced a larger part of the internet to satellite City and his audience becoming aware of its existence is his greatest crime against humanity

[@ultrae4628]

The uproar the Nostalgia critic’s review created genuinely makes me happy. The solidarity of anger toward this video is kind of wholesome

[@sirgrim3905]

Yeah it is. But as soon as I saw that he did a review I got scared lol. Then I watch 10 min and well I wasn't happy.

[@undead923]

It fills me with an urge to defecate

[@sirgrim3905]

@@undead923 indeed it does worm your honor

[@FrenkTheJoy]

I'm upset more people didn't hop on the hate wagon before, but I am definitely happy it's happening, even though it took so long.
I don't care about The Wall. Personally I don't like it, just my preference. But holy shit this is a terrible product. People SHOULD be mad. It's awful.

[@s871-c1q]

I enjoy hating things with internet people too. This is genuinely shit though, comrade.

[@watt2785]

"I don't hate anyone."
"Okay I maybe hate a few people."

[@omarsabir1210]

Remembers Zack Snyder

[@sharkisland8550]

The whole SpongeBob thing at the end made my whole body turn inside it with cringe. Why is that there other than to be "lol random" type comedy.

[@namelessanonymous2090]

Jacob Helton I swear, every normie that has discovered Spongebob memes is trying so hard to use them, but they don't understand when to do it.

[@mooganify]

l thought lol random died in 2009

[@TabbyAbby]

It was honestly an additional middle finger to Stephen Hillenburg, as if the review wasn't already a big giant flip off towards Pink Floyd 😒

[@karmalotus22]

mooganify lol I feel like lol random stopped after 2011.

[@zaltaintheshade8225]

Well apparently it was in reference to an inside joke between cory and his fans as he would play the song alot while on tour and doing signings still a random thing to reference

[@twinkie415]

"you have like 8 ads, 8 midroll ads, & on top of that his sponsor Honey..."
he's gotta pay for Corey Taylor somehow.

[@fahimabjal7106]

Fun game for those whove never watched the wall in the first place: try guess the plot of the film from this mess

[@Lugbzurg]

A couch potato is tormented by his personal demons?

[@i3want3cookie]

A guy is really sick and has a fever dream consisting only of nostalgia critic video compilations

[@DCNRS90YT]

A guy in a nightmare coma for 10 years about music and bitterness.

[@firstnamelastname7244]

A serial rapist arrives in hell and is tormented with shitty music?

[@alexworld257]

A drugged man watches a black screen and hallucinates nightmarish visions in his bad trip

[@sori_osori_]

"I'm Jesus"
That was the line Doug used in his Man of steel review to mock the obvious symbolism of Jesus. Now I'm just wondering if it was just recording of his what he truly think himself as.

[@montecristo1845]

큐베다이스키
It also reminded me of how Tom Green sounded in Freddy Got Fingered:
“I’m a farmer! Look at me! I’m a farmer!”
Maybe he was trying to parody two movies with one stone.
Either way, didn’t like it.

[@sori_osori_]

@@montecristo1845 Which could also mean he has just as much super ego as Zack snyder and just as much intelligence as Freddy....Hmmmm

[@herrikudo]

what sucks is that he's mocking a movie that actually has GENUINE shit to say. Fucking WWII Battle of Britain references, heroine, loss, loneliness, depression.... come the fuck on dude it's Pink FUCKING Floyd.... you can parody the wall quite hilariously.... this just feels mean spirited.

[@marcohidalgo1101]

@@montecristo1845 I bet PhantomStrider's now disappointed in Doug for stooping THAT low.

[@culwin]

The weird thing is, it doesn't matter if a person loves or hates "The Wall" (album or movie). They will still hate that "review".

[@hubguy]

If you hate The Wall then you’re just gonna hate his review even more lol

[@Flamestar320]

I think people who are fans of the album and movie are disliking it more. I wanted to see Doug do an actual review of the movie. Not see him poorly parody the songs in a way that's not only potentially insulting to the people that made the movie, but insulting to the band as well. I don't mind when Doug brings out the flaws of a movie I am interested in, but when he claims that the album he created off of this and (to a smaller extent) the review itself are meant to be love letters to Pink Floyd and the parodies are not funny, it's just disappointing.

[@s871-c1q]

I don't care about it and this 'satire' is terrible garbage. It's legitimately straining every part of me to hear it. This is the biggest world backfire since Franz Ferdinand.

[@KingThrillgore]

I didn't like The Wall movie. It's visually stunning but wasn't cohesive. It's only merits is from it's visuals, since the premise is outlined in the album rather brilliantly for it's time.
But yeah, I hate this review not just because it misses the point, it's proud of missing the point. It's so god damn cringy. It's a mess. It's made by a talentless hack fraud and enabler. So much time and money was turned into this. I'm frustrated and I feel bad for everyone who ever had to watch the Nostalgia Critic or work with Doug or Michaud.

[@HawaiianGirl808232]

It's like those Vampire Sucks movies that were parodies of Twilight. I hate Twilight but I'd rather sit through all four movies again than watch one minute from Vampire Sucks again.

[@Ryusuta]

I was able to stomach Nostalgia Critic all the way up until the "clipless" reviews. Even the first couple of years after the return, when it was more heavy on the skits, I could find some enjoyment here and there. But once he started doing literally nothing BUT those skits, I realized at that point that I was just watching a repackaged version of Demo Reel.

[@JumbleJammyJokes]

Agreed. Sitting through the Hocus Pocus video (I’m not calling it a review) was where I started to sour on his videos. I dipped in and out afterwards if it was a film I recognised, but I no longer watched him as religiously as I used to until I eventually unsubscribed (ironically just before ChangeTheChannel happened).

[@Sorrelhas]

@@JumbleJammyJokes Thanks for reminding me how salty I was at the Hocus Pocus review

[@anthonyibarra8697]

It's like Doug was so bitter and pissed that people didn't like his Demo Reel series, so he thought 'Fuck these haters, they don't like my skits? I'll put them in Nostalgia Critic so no one can escape them!'

[@MegaSpideyman]

@@Sorrelhas Yeah, I could understand him doing clipless reviews for just released films, but not for ones that have been out for years.

[@srslydoatm9251]

I'm grateful this came out; I was too afraid to watch the actual """""review""""" on my own.
I mean why in the actual hell did NC think us watching him singing off key for almost 40 minutes was a good idea???
Ew...

[@DCNRS90YT]

It was a terrible idea, Doug should've scrapped the review altogether.

[@Brainhorn]

He probably assumed people wouldn't blow it out of proportion like they did

[@pinecone9619]

I was really dreading his review of the wall. Not because I enjoyed the wall, but because I didn't want to hear a shitty rendition of the wall. The wall was (is) a beautiful album. I didn't need or want Doug's take on it. Pink Floyd deserves better

[@haleybeldin9247]

And his take is so obtuse, especially about Another Brick in the Wall. This is trash.

[@Revan-eb1wb]

And then they have corey but dont let him sing a song

[@thisismyname5657]

The fact that he thinks his terrible "parody" (which just ended up being more of a mockery) was somehow a love letter to the album is such an insult.

[@MomoKunDaYo]

Then... why did you watch the review.. lol?

[@BruhMoment-re8nc]

@@haleybeldin9247 gotta love when he called Comfortably Numb "oscar bait" when it was written years before the movie

[@tysontremblay4952]

Ironic. He rambles about how pretentious The Wall is, yet the ultimate pretentiousness here is Doug's attempt to "understand" the album. Pretentious means, "attempting to impress by affecting greater importance or merit than is actually possessed." That is Doug in a nutshell.

[@NoCapHistory]

Love how he calls The Wall pretentious but The Wall is easily one of the greatest albums of all time

[@briarrosegael2015]

Personally, I detest the word pretentious for its vacuous definition. However, Doug Seems pretentious.

[@briarrosegael2015]

@Invalid I surmise the reason that I allowed for unintended irony is because I used larger words? If not, I'm not without fault, please explain why to me. I'm curious. pre·ten·tious
adjective
attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed.
"a pretentious literary device" This is the definition used by google, and it's vague(vacuous.) That's the point I was trying to make, I wasn't trying to impress by using larger words(if that's the reason,) I merely prefer using more refined language.

[@corycasler9392]

Watching Ralph say “it’s so bad” for 16 minutes straight is more entertaining than any nostalgia critic videos

[@Xpwnxage]

Especially when he can't contain is mocking laughter

[@Narutass43]

Rob Scallon's actually talented. Poor guy

[@leetorry]

And Corey Taylor too, he's the Raul Julia of the film, his son is why he collaborated with NC.

[@rosesongoku6980]

@@leetorry *OF COURSE!!!!*

[@Revan-eb1wb]

@@leetorry yep. his son was the only reason he is in the video. to spent some time with his son

[@ZarathrustaTate]

Revan 1313 and time well spend. the video us shyte, sure. but they had fun they will go through it together and at the end they’ll move on. good.

[@Revan-eb1wb]

@@ZarathrustaTate i think so too that corey no longer gives a fuck about that video. But it would not surprise me if he never returns for a video too

[@lumbearjack7372]

Haven't seen nor heared from Nostalgia Critic in years, but seeing this makes me think like he's stuck in 2010 or something

[@kopro2428]

@Shaman X same can be said about you. What's your point? Noone can critique him because he makes more money?

[@jamesoleary2476]

Shaman X idk if he does based on this production value. Channel awesome doesn't get that many views and employs a lot of people.

[@user-lg5xu6id5j]

@Shaman X doug isnt paying you enough to rub his massive bald head/ego

[@superduperisaac]

@Shaman X Take it easy man, sometimes people don't like the same youtubers you like, it happens. No point in trying to defend them

[@MILDMONSTER1234]

@@superduperisaac he's a bait channel alt account, don't bother with him

[@Skreezilla]

the fact he released this as an Album too..... that is the worst part..... i actually think he thinks it is good....

[@user-lg5xu6id5j]

Why listen to the original album when you can listen to an worse, inaudible, humorless, cringey ""parody/satire"" version

[@ismaelnehme379]

He hearted a comment saying "This is better than the original."

[@diobrando2845]

Fucking incredible. If his head gets any bigger, it’ll block out the sun.

[@Sorel2020]

And is selling it

[@Heavysweating]

It would be one thing if he was giving it out for free, but the fact he's selling it for 10 bucks on itunes is just cherry on top of this shitcake

[@B-Roll_Gaming]

It's like Doug is incapable of understanding anything beyond surface level aesthetic

[@ChildOfChaos07]

Like CinemaSins

[@nman551]

@@ChildOfChaos07 ironic isn’t it

[@jasonhahn8797]

​@@ChildOfChaos07 well he's one of the ten people who likes CinemaSins... Kind of fitting.

[@trappy6748]

This is just the typical Doug Walker vanity project.

[@sansnom5269]

You mean his entire site it's not a vanity project?

[@Utonian21]

Yup. Doug's incompetence really shines in this one

[@koichidignitythief7429]

Funny how he constantly criticized the movie for having a huge ego and Jesus imagery yet Doug presents himself as this Messiah of film criticism in all of his reviews.

[@koichidignitythief7429]

@Autismo he did idolized Ebert sooo......

[@olserknam]

Vanity? Do you have any concrete proof, sources, or what? If you think his work sucks it's one thing, but you're just making stuf up to insult him.

[@colfortynine]

I love how everyone from different walks of life could band together in hatred of this. Doug Walker is a blessing

[@SaiKisaragi]

Oh, if there's one thing that can bring us all together as a people, it's hating one thing as a collective.

[@tovarischkrasnyjeshi]

To think Brad Jones threw away his friendships with Allison, Phelan, Lewis, and a bunch of others for a cameo in this

[@ElectricBarrier]

Brad cries himself to sleep every night with his copy of Caligula.

[@isaacargesmith8217]

thats not the only thing brad did, dudes appearently an ass.

[@megavidaeos]

Isaac Argesmith what did he do?

[@mooganify]

yeah what did he do? Stick by CA when they left?

[@tovarischkrasnyjeshi]

@@megavidaeos He's dismissed his ex friends' grievances outright. Blames them for crazy randos. Compared ctc to logan paul filming a dead body and sees nothing wrong with it. With his wife dismissed mental illness as something to be taken seriously. He's also had a history of very dramatic flare ups with his old time since childhood friends that might be indicative of his character as a whole.

[@coward6612]

The guy that did the cgi animation has his own channel and is literally just one person so I think he did decent, his character designs are just awful.

[@Leo_Has_EJR_Rizz]

He had no time or budget either.

[@jooree7696]

Agreed. Don't like the characters design, but the animations are really good

[@geminithewolf2189]

It suffers from a similar problem as Hazbin Hotel, even though I like it and the folks behind it: the characters have way too much going on with them. Mismatched eyes and clothes, bright colors and patterns, far too many details that don't add anything except make them harder to draw or animate.

[@IronFreakV]

@@geminithewolf2189 in other words they are overdesigned?

[@geminithewolf2189]

@@IronFreakV Yep

[@pajamapantsjack5874]

Doug is officially the DSP of angry reviewers

[@scrums4748]

Thats a bit harsh

[@mickginny6075]

Keystrokes yeah DSP has been a consistent character.

[@rosesongoku6980]

*"WHUUUUUUT?!?!?! HOW COULD YOU COMPARE ME TO THAT LOSER, DOOOOOD?!?!?! HE CAN'T EVEN TIE HIS TIE PROPERLY!!!! ACK ACK ACK ACK ACK ACK ACK ACK ACK ACK ACK AAAAAACCCCCCKKKKKKK!!!!!!!............ (BEAST GANON SNORT)"*

[@Rise2Resist]

Nothing he could do dood. Bugged review mechanics. He never failed the review. FeelsBadMan.

[@guymanguy]

Nah nostalgia critic isnt immortal like dsp

[@lessermook7608]

Doug is the kid everyone made fun of, one of his friends said a review of his was "ok", now he thinks he's the new Spielberg.

[@surprisedchar2458]

Nostalgia Critic used to be a fun, silly movie reviewing version of AVGN. They even had a playful “feud” back in the day. After he decided to return to the character it tumbled downhill.

[@Royalname31]

@@surprisedchar2458 I would say his downfall began when he decided to make more skits since Jurassic World. When he reviewed that movie, my reaction was, "Why review a recent movie? Aren't you the goddamn NOSTALGIA Critic? Hell, AVGN never went that far, and instead, actually waited a couple of years before doing the games of the late 90s and 2000s, when 3D was all the rage. And even aknowledge that this is too new for his character when he was showing how he "upgraded"

[@MrHEC381991]

The internet all of a sudden: THIS is the worst thing Doug has ever done...
Soooo everyone forgot about why his employees left or were dropped from his channel? o_O

[@JuanSolo9]

@Sum Boi ouch

[@junkbotbionicle6217]

I'm out of the loop here

[@12Gage541]

That just shows you how fucking bad that video is.

[@thegamehbktaker]

Just imagine when That Guy With The Glasses existed and how almost all of the members turned out to be deeply flawed persons, Spoony being an alcoholic who couldn't cope with the fact that the Nostalgic Chick aborted his son and made a documentary out of it, Linkara being a sex deviant, and The Walker brothers who couldn't keep with the fame and crumble to make cheap shit like this... Amazing

[@ScorpionFlower95]

@@thegamehbktaker okay wow

[@andrewfinch76]

The Nostalgia Critic is something I enjoyed a lot when I was like fourteen. It's really dumb, over the top, low brow humor. It's been about a decade now and it feels really jarring to watch. Partially because it hasn't changed, but especially because Doug Walker has such an immature sense of humor. I don't get how someone his age can enjoy the content he makes. Maybe he doesn't and is just cashing in on the videos because they still make money. The eight mid-role ads plus a sponsorship tend to point to that. But I'm not really sure how kids today are into his videos. They feel so outdated. It's like the videos from ten years ago that randomly show up in your feed, except he still makes that content.
Also, I feel bad for Rob Scallon for being roped into this garbage. He's a really talented musician, and he actually did a good job on the instrumentals for this (at least from what I've heard). I mean he didn't really put his own spin on it, but it was technically good. I have a feeling he made the backing track for Doug without any knowledge of the lyrics or vocals that Doug was going to put over it.

[@vanroyal244]

I watched his reviews for about a week, then gave up because there were too many skits that were unfunny.

[@HOTD108_]

14 is too old to be liking this stuff dude.

[@oystersoup3434]

His older stuff was perfectly entertaining content for a fourteen-year-old, dude. This content now is like a zombified machination of unfunny skits. Nostalgia Critic's content got, ironically, more immature with time.

[@Themoushtaceleague96]

Can’t wait for The Nostalgia Critic’s review of “Yellow Submarine”.

[@RiainRamblez]

"nowhere man ACTUALLY is symbolic of HITLEEEEER"

[@carolthedimented]

Ooof why the hell would you say that 😣

[@DeepEye1994]

40 minutes of terrible singing, ignorant/disrespectful/wrong points and god awful special effects and in the very end "Oh, I liked it alright, at times it's hippy LSD bullshit, but it has neat animation."

[@kinhamid9665]

They'd never do that because they'd have to put effort into actually animating something, unless they want to make us sit through 40 minutes of stick figures speaking with Doug's bloodcurdling voice (or god forbid, him trying to do a liverpudlian accent)

[@80swoodpanel]

Don't you fucking dare!

[@neal2399]

What is Doug’s obsession with that stock fire-at-the-bottom-of-the-screen effect? The same one used in, like, MLG montages from 2008 and epic Fortnite channel intros?

[@KoylTrane]

For nostalgia?

[@scatman786]

It’s straight up epic

[@Wewwers]

MLG montages are from 2013, dumb zoomer

[@RetroBleck]

@@Wewwers 2012 actually, "Farming Simulator Mad Skill | No Plow | 360 Crop Rotation |" is, or might be, the first MLG montage parody.

[@neal2399]

Izaya Bleckworthy I’m really curious, all I can ever find is montage parodies, but never the original montages that the parodies made fun of. Know of any? I need more cringe

[@minkstar9021]

I feel bad for people like Rob Scallon, Sam Fennah, and Corey Taylor. These are all talented people now associated with this review. A shame.

[@tymanning2832]

MediumWriter they agreed to be part of it, so I don’t feel too sorry for them.

[@devinodriscoll]

MediumWriter Okay, but Fennah’s still a fucking clown. Do you not know the “Athiest Bionicle” movie he tried to make?

[@homeworld1765]

Don't forget Cinema Snob

[@gdog3017]

@@devinodriscoll that was in his VERY early stages and still had no clue where his life was going. people are immature and don't think when their newbies, we are all victims of it. now, imo by god he's better than Disney in all aspects, animation, plot, characters, everything.

[@theshockinglyeloquentdog9945]

@@gdog3017 then you must be 14. becsuse i follow him only to see him improve. Fenna has talent but he's a long, long way from rivaling a real studio.
unfortunately him working with Doug Walker makes sense as they are both huge egos....but even Fenna knows how to take criticism once in a while

[@markray2769]

"It's philosophical, and means stuff."
"Each one represented something deep, and meaningful."
-Man who has made a living off circa 2008 era youtube rants people only watch ironically

[@stproducciones9140]

Doug really didn't get the movie huh. Those cartoon characters represented different characters from Pink's life... And that's about it. They weren't all that complex, nor did they need to be.

[@plantemor]

I was one of the old fans of Nostalgia Critic. Started watching him in 2009 and gradually lost interest between 2013 and 2014. In my opinion something fundamentally changed about his videos when he made the Moulin Rouge review. Up until that point, the format had become less and less review focused and more and more comedy sketch focused - which I hated with a passion. Then Moulin Rouge happened and I think this was a turning point for him. He retired the Nostalgia Critic some time later and tried to pursue that other show called Demo Reel which was essentially nothing but him and his team reenacting movies - poorly - and 100% based on sketches. No one liked it.
He brought Nostalgia Critic back with the themesong from his Moulin Rouge review as his anthem and ever since then he's made it his mission to turn Nostalgia Critic into Demo Reel and hiding behind the excuse of "trying to avoid copyright claims".
I haven't watched his shitty videos for years and it's just bizarre to see how he has completely regressed into everything he ever hated. Oh well.

[@xoferwalken]

I disagree, this shit started with those Kickassia-type projects he did. IIRC someone anonymous in that "Change The Channel" document basically accused him of thinking he was Spielberg or some shit when those were going on.

[@plantemor]

@@xoferwalken Yeah that definitely contributes to it as well. I remember when kickassia came out and everybody kept saying it was so good and I thought I was taking crazy pills because it was so fucking awful. I only watched those anniversary movies out of a sense of fan-duty which was a retarded reason. I have blocked most of them out of my memory.
Oh I forgot: I still don't think the anniversary movies affected his review format as much as everything post the Moulin rouge review but I agree with you that the anniversary movies absolutely played a role in Doug's delusional behavior.

[@mooganify]

It went downhill when it came back after Demo Reel. There are still good episodes here and there and l watched from time to time in 2014 too but I stopped until now. l watched some others a couple months ago for nostalgia, lol, but this is awful.

[@michaelschettig1613]

The best thing about that is that Doug thought that Moulin Rouge was a perfect review and the reason he decided to end the Nostalgia Critic series is because he thought he had peaked and couldn't possibly do better than Moulin Rouge

[@plantemor]

@@michaelschettig1613 did he say that, lol? Is there a place where I can see him make that statement? I need a good laugh

[@Lofimanify]

"Who is even entertained by this?"
*proceeds to laugh hysterically*

[@lootcat1230]

Honestly it was getting really annoying.

[@politicalmemes1296]

Meh its so bad it funny

[@chestercastaneda4920]

Don't think the cringe comedy was intentional.

[@tugger]

he's laughing in embarassment for Doug
it's horror
it's like whistling when you think someone is going to kill you

[@charlesf.7947]

@@chestercastaneda4920 I think it was intentional actually. I think the cheapness is supposed to be part of the joke.

[@spark154]

Is kinda odd that Doug went so hard on Adam Sandler's voice acting for 12 Crazy Nights or whatever was that cartoon called. Yet. He is so willing to do so many different voices and all of them are so obviously him, I mean. He is aware he has more people working with him right?

[@TrueCobalion]

I think him overexaggerating on Whitey's voice was just for comedic value if you can call it that.
You aren't wrong, I find it weird that channel awesome has a good chunk of members that work on and off the show but Doug still serves as the voice of many characters when it should just be restricted to the critic persona itself.

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

I dislike Adam Sandler - idk why but I have a weird soft spot in my hear for Eight Crazy Nights. It's not good. I'm not even Jewish. No clue what it is.

[@spark154]

@@fuzzydunlop7928 I'm Mexican and I watched that movie once. The Dub is really good. But voice actors here dedicate most of their life to develop as artists. Maybe was that for you or you simply like stupid movies, which is Okay. So do I, as long as they are not boring.

[@briansager3744]

Roger Watters: I have an idea for a concept album about the long lasting effects of authoritarianism and war can have on a society.
Doug Walker: what about farts? What if we made a concept album and, like, farts?

[@torstenscholz6243]

Also Doug Walker: Doesn't get the criticism of authoritarianism and war in the slightest, so his criticism doesn't go beyond "WWII with monsters, how silly" and "Roger says Highschool sucks". [No, he does not. There aren't even any Highschools in Britain, and it wasn't meant to be a general criticism of school.]

[@danielshore1457]

@@torstenscholz6243 yeah wasn't his criticism on school actually a criticism on corporal punishment in Britain and how fucked up it was

[@MarquisLeary34]

@@danielshore1457 So he got butt whippings in school, boo hoo. That's a fucking utopia compared to what public schools are NOW. Forgive me if I'm not weeping over a filthy rich rock star crying about being spanked in school.

[@danielshore1457]

@@MarquisLeary34 it wasn't butt whipping though in the UK in the 60s corporal punishment was kind of fucked up like there is a reason its been made illegal because its been shown to have serious psychological repercussions on the individual. Just research any peoples stories from the time

[@MarquisLeary34]

@@danielshore1457 I ain't a fan of it either, but I'm sorry, I get a backstage pass to seeing what shit goes on in public schools NOW, and it doesn't exactly make me look at that and go "man, those were the worst of times." Teachers getting stabbed and fucking their students, shootings, try and beat that UK school system of the 60's.

[@pizzatime1978]

The Virgin Nostalgia Critic vs the Chad Ralph Sepe

[@jp5394]

vs Thad RedLetterMedia

[@pizzatime1978]

Of course, Jay's a hottie

[@legendarygamerno2714]

I don't even really like The Wall (the movie, the album is spectacular) but holy shit, how can someone miss the point so badly?

[@basedbattledroid3507]

My thoughts exactly.

[@keybyss98]

It's OK to have different tastes and opinions, and I think NC's review would've been interesting if he disliked it but also did a legitimately good review of it, rather than doing a whole fucking skit and crappy album the whole time.

[@user-lg5xu6id5j]

I didnt watch the wall so i dont the know thw point but the know the doug video was painful even by his standards

[@trashl0rd]

The most embarassing aspect of this is that The Wall's messages/themes aren't even that complex. I mean, they have sufficient enough depth to be respectable, but if you can't puzzle them out then you have little business being in the 'critic' business.

[@qty1315]

The Wall is a pretty divisive movie, but the album is a masterpiece.

[@timthememer2785]

The worst part is we all know Doug thinks this is his greatest review ever. Kinda ironic he has that whole thing ranting about echo chambers in this video...

[@worlds1ep3enthusiast92]

Does Doug legitimately think the song is about school?

[@cyrus2395]

"It says the word 'teacher,' it's about schools"

[@JustAnotherZubat]

Another Brick in the Wall part 2 is about school, what do you mean?

[@brentdyer1820]

@@JustAnotherZubat its about his main traumas in life, his overprotective mom, abusive school teacher, wife leaving him, and then after sulking in all of it, he goes insane and prosecutes himself in his mind with the jury being made up of the people that caused his trauma. it ends with him realizing that all the people that caused his trauma werent doing it to traumatize him but more because they had their own trauma and were going through things aswell. basically, the world doesnt revolve around him like he thought it did.

[@JustAnotherZubat]

brent Dya ok but Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 is still about school

[@brentdyer1820]

@@JustAnotherZubat holy moly i completely misread what you both said. i thought you guys were talking about the ablum as a whole, my apologies